Dave Espe

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About Dave Espe

Highly skilled IT leader, manager and project manager with over 25 years of extensive experience working for a wide variety of corporations and markets as both an IT consultant and permanent employee. Designed and/or implemented many significant projects (including MCI Mail, Electronic Medical Records, Document Imaging, Property Tax and multiple Web Sites). Restructured IT organizations and infrastructures, building new architectures from the ground up. Consistently developed communication programs with business units, and developed prioritization processes with those business units to ensure the implementation of the most critical projects for the organization. Significant experience in budgeting, operations, application development, web development, project management, strategic planning, and organization planning as the senior IT leader for organizations. Experience as a consultant, a customer and a vendor enable him to view opportunities from multiple perspectives, utilizing these skills to visualize and then implement solutions. Consistently developed communication programs with business units and developed prioritization processes with those business units to ensure the successful implementation of the most critical projects for the organization. Proven experience as a manager of teams of consultants and internal staff, both as a technical project manager and as the manager responsible for the consultant’s personal development, including preparing performance and salary reviews. Experienced in developing and managing IT budgets, contract negotiations, and executive management decision making. Experience with relational databases and data conversion/migration, website architecture, development and deployment. Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, and Reporting Services. Certified in ITIL Foundations and Change Management. Specialties: Project Management, contract negotiation, application architecture and design, web design, RFP development and management, CIO